urator: Melissa Torro

Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to present Georgi Petrov’s exhibition “Facebook: Password Love”, a solo show featuring for the first time images from the artist’s internet exhibition by the same name. Through the universal language of painting, Georgi Petrov succeeds in depicting love and bringing the contemporary vision of his home in Bulgaria to the United States.

Upcoming Events:

March 26, (Friday) – 7pm-11pm – POLLIFAX at Alfa
March 27, (Saturday) – 2pm-4pm – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette” – a lecture by Michael Price
April 2, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – Vesselin Kourtev – solo exhibition
April 9, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – “Uptown”, a Novel – Book promotion and signing

March 26th, 2010 – “Another Sunny Day” – POLLIFAX at Alfa

Currator: Julianna Ritter
Doors open at 7pm – …

A new exhibition at the Zimmerli exploring the preponderance of noses and overcoats in 20th century lithographs, available for viewing between March 12th and April 10th.

Thursday, April 8, 2010
This spring, Philadelphia is hosting Philagrafika 2010, a city-wide festival in about 80 museums and galleries throughout the city and region, celebrating the printed image through the work of 300 internationally acclaimed artists* from around the world.  The theme of the festival is “The Graphic Unconscious.”        Featured artists include Americans Eric Avery, Enrique Chagoya, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and many others, as well as numerous artists from around the world, including Christiane Baumgartner (Germany), Orit Hofshi (Israel), Pepon Osorio (Puerto …

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers features the latest body of work by the New York-based, Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi in Les Femmes du Maroc from January 30 to June 6, 2010. Seventeen large-format color photographs will portray Moroccan women in tableaux based on famous examples of 19th-century European and American Orientalist paintings and covered in Arabic calligraphic script. A selection of Orientalist works from the museum’s extensive collections of European graphic art will also be on display to provide a cultural context for Essaydi’s work.

Opening Reception: March 12th, 7:30-10:30pm
Exhibition Duration: March 12th – April 2nd
Open Studio: March 27th, 2-4pm
Curator: Michiko Mull
Alfa Art Gallery is very pleased to present the recent works of New York-based British artist Michael Price in “The Immortal Spirit of Nature” on view from March 12th – April 2nd, 2010. After twenty years of strenuous research and experimentation, Michael Price has been able to revive the long-lost pigmentation processes of the Renaissance masters.

The world is horrid right straight through and so am I…I want to grouch and sulk and rip and snort. I am a pail of milk that has gone sour. (Emily Carr)
There are two art scenes in New Brunswick. There is the art in the galleries, the theaters, and even produced from Mason Gross but then there is the underground. Ironically enough you can find it walking down any street in all the most conspicuous places. The only problem is having the eye to find it. The most popular places …

While on a recent trip to Berlin, Germany, Ali Riaz took the time to catalog examples of the prolific graffiti and street art on display there. No photo’s have been doctored in any way. Enjoy.

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A reaction to Claude Monet’s Le Soleil Levant, 1872

A seamless merging of art and poetry. The best artists are multi-talented…